A court on Wednesday delayed a bail hearing for three people charged with corruption over a deal with a firm linked to the son of China’s president.
Two European journalists were fined on Friday by a court in Namibia for filming the annual seal hunt along the coast of the Southern African nation.
The country was well on its way to reducing child mortality, but over the past decade the pandemic has annulled previous gains.
First the long knives were out for Namibia’s President Hifikepunye Pohamba, now they are willing to fall on their swords and die for him.
More than 200 000 people in Namibia have been affected by flooding near the northern border with Angola since January, the UN said on Friday.
The cancellation of a popular phone-in show on Namibia’s national broadcaster has raised fears that the ruling party is clamping down on media freedom
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/ 16 February 2009
The Fortuner has independent double wishbones at the front, but aside from that, it shaped up nicely.
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/ 3 December 2008
A Namibian court has granted bail to an SA journalist arrested for allegedly entering the country on a tourist visa in order to do reporting.
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/ 28 November 2008
A tribunal ruled on Friday that 78 white Zimbabweans can keep their farms because the government’s land-reform scheme discriminated against them.
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/ 19 November 2008
An elderly woman slowly looks around her new farmland, her wrinkled face lighting up with a shy little smile as suddenly she claps her hands.
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/ 30 October 2008
"Obama represents the unity of humanity. Dare I say it? This is a man who might go down in history as ‘Barack the Great’.”
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/ 16 October 2008
The Van der Merwe family share their Namibian home with 400 animals and, occasionally, Angelina Jolie. Britt Collins reports.
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/ 10 October 2008
Being forced to speak Afrikaans for years didn’t help Namibians with English language proficiency, writes Moses Magadza.
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/ 22 September 2008
A treasure-laden 16th-century Portuguese vessel that ran aground off Namibia’s Atlantic coast was hailed on Monday by archaeologists.
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/ 16 September 2008
A mystery shipwreck laden with gold discovered off the coast of Namibia in April is a 16th-century Portuguese vessel that was bound for Asia.
Having lost their only income source when the Uis tin mine shut down, a community in the Namibian desert is slowly being resurrected by locals.
A bombshell has burst over the Toscanini diamond mine on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast after two of its American investment broker were arrested last week.
Namibia will impose a ban on all trade in ”worked ivory” from next month in a bid to abide by international regulations on endangered species.
A storm of public protest has erupted over Namibian authorities’ decision to allow six Kunene region elephant bulls to be shot as trophies.
An associate of the Swapo activist presents new evidence to solve the murder, writes John Grobler.
Namibia’s ambassador to Berlin has demanded that German universities return dozens of human skulls, remains of the colonial-era Herero massacre.
Eight Southern African coastal states have agreed to set up a regional task force to deal with illegal fishing in their waters and save fish stocks.
From men inching along on their bellies in hot sand and grit whipped up by 90kph winds to satellite-guided ships manipulating 250-ton remote-controlled crawlers hovering around the ocean floor, Namibia’s diamond-mining industry has come a long way since 1908.
The final resting place of Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, who in 1488 was the first European to discover the Cape of Good Hope and open up the East Indian trade route, may have been found 500 years after his caravel disappeared in a storm off the south-west African coast in 1500.
A hunt for diamonds along the coast of Namibia has led to the discovery of a shipwreck dating back about five centuries, with its booty of gold coins and bronze cannons still intact. A spokesperson for Namdeb, the company whose miners made the discovery last month, said the ship was believed to have been the oldest wreck to be discovered in sub-Saharan Africa.
Namibia’s electricity supplier asked consumers whether they wanted higher rates or less power — and the result, based on responses sent by SMS: rates will rise by 18,3%. The country has been grappling with shortfalls from South Africa, from which it imports the bulk of its supplies.
Five years after opening its arms to globalisation, Namibia is left nursing a R200-million hangover, polluted groundwater and thousands of angry workers after the showcase Malaysian textile plant Ramatex Berhad suddenly closed last month. Namibia rolled out the red carpet for Ramatex in 2002.
Namibia and North Korea said on Thursday they hoped to strengthen their economic ties, as North Korea’s head of state warned against countries plundering resources from poor African countries.
A Namibian court on Thursday halted the seizure of four farms owned by German citizens, saying the government had acted unconstitutionally. German land owners Guenther Kessl and Martin Riedmaier last year took the Lands Ministry to court, arguing that expropriation orders discriminated against foreign investors.
Floods in Namibia have killed 42 people and displaced thousands since early February and officials said on Tuesday more flooding can be expected. Gabriel Kangowa, head of the Emergency Management Unit of Namibia, said 4 500 people have been displaced from their homes in central and northern Namibia.
Political violence has reared its head in northern Namibia’s political heartland of Owambo, where a new Namibian political party, the Rally for Democracy and Progress, is contesting a local election against the ruling party, Swapo. The election outcome is widely seen as an indication of the future of Namibian politics.
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/ 16 February 2008
Namibia hopes to construct a nuclear power station within ten years to ensure independent power supply in the face of a regional electricity crisis, a government official said Friday. ”We are thinking of nuclear-generated energy,” said Joseph Iita, permanent secretary of the ministry of Mines and Energy.